I'm just a pretty regular dad.

Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to drop it because it was really risky. The budget we proposed was a lot higher than they expected, they wanted to [drop it]. After all, it's a philosophical book and a literature property, it's not Batman.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.